Skip to Content, Navigation, or Footer.
The Tufts Daily
Where you read it first | Friday, March 29, 2024

Seven Questions with Kelli Harrison

All the way from the Rim of the World, the women's volleyball team has a new kill specialist. Her name is Kelli Harrison. Harrison is only a freshman, but has already been named to two All-Tournament teams and was honored as The Tufts Daily's female athlete of the week on one occasion.

According to her teammate, senior tri-captain Lindsey Moses, off the court Harrison doesn't brush her hair, enjoys the circus, and loves taking photographs. On the court she plays hard, dives for balls, and is never afraid to use her kneepads and leave some sweat on the floor.

I caught up with Harrison doing her freshman duty of setting up the nets before a home tournament, so naturally seven questions followed.



1. What's the deal with the volleyball team's motto of "Dig Deep"?

Well it was either "Dig Deep" or "Suck My Trunk."



2. Are you a little upset that one of the most successful teams of the fall season gets some of the worst fan support?

Yeah I am. What does this school have against girls in light blue spandex?



3. You have already been selected to two All-Tournament teams after only really playing in three as a team, how do you remain modest?

My parents pay me.



4. Does it make you at all self-conscience that every time the Daily
runs a photograph of the volleyball team, it shows your booties in those spandex bottoms?

Maybe if the pictures were only of our booties, we would have bigger crowds.



5. Your weekend tournaments really mess up pick-up basketball games, do basketball players ever get angry?

We mess up pick-up games? We're never here on the weekends, did you want us to play or something?



6. If all of a sudden tons of East Coast people got excited about volleyball and wanted to see your team play, what should they expect?

They should expect to find the school's sweatiest team wiping up the floor.



7. Why is your high school called Rim of the World when the Earth is round and speaking of which, where is Blue Jay, California anyway?

Yeah, news of Columbus's discovery never quite made it to Blue Jay, which is close to Big Bear, California and you've probably never heard of that either.



By Elliott Wiley, Jr.